: Does Google bot crawl unused tags? If a website a called foo.com has the following css, #LinkBuilder{ background:url("www.LoremEpsum.com"); } and the css id LinkBuilder is actually not getting used

@Annie201

Linking to images on other domains in a CSS style sheet is not counted as a back link. It's not an actual anchor tag or <a> to be exact. It's not the type of link which carries weight with search engines.

While an image can be indexed in Google images, it's being indexed from your web page having it displayed.

If you run a search for jquery you do not see ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js appear in search results yet this is linked to from thousands of domains, just not linked to by <a> tags

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